Empire Grade: UCSC (Heller Dr.) to Bonny Doon.

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Heller Drive, University, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California, 95064, United States

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Climb Stats

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Climb (Meters)500.6 m
Distance (Kilometers)14.35 km
Average Gradient3.5%
Climb CategoryCategory 2

Detailed Climb Stats

Stuff for climbing nerds.

Distance (Miles)8.91 miles
Distance (Raw)14,345.9 m
Elevation High663.41 m
Elevation Low162.83 m
Maximum Gradient30.2%
Climb Difficulty Score50,067.19

Social Climbing

All the important climbing popularity information.

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There are 4,884 recorded attempts by 1,628 individual cyclists.

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That's an average of 3.00 attempts per cyclist.

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No one has favourited this climb.

Climb Rank

How does this climb compare against every other climb in the world?

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This climb ranks 37,147th out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

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Ranked as the 2,391st most difficult cycling climb of all 337,250 climbs in United States.

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Places 1,111th out of 66,571 cycling climbs in California.

Ranks 31st out of 1,090 cycling climbs in Santa Cruz County.

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A local climb of note, this is the 6th most difficult cycling climb (out of 241 climbs) in Santa Cruz.

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